Is the Lord calling you to a career in medical missions? Are you wondering how to make the transition from residency or fellowship to the mission field? If so, the World Medical Mission Post-Residency Program has been created for you.

The Post-Residency Program is a fully funded two-year program for Christian physicians and their families who have been called to medical missions. Immediately following your residency, we will place you at a mission hospital where you will serve within your specialty. We provide logistical and financial support and may also be able to help you find assistance for repaying student loans while you serve alongside career medical missionaries.

Post Residency Program

Click on the image of our Post-Residency Program brochure to get a quick overview of the program and to read stories about physicians and their families who are serving overseas.

The application deadline is June 1st in the year prior to the beginning of your last year of training. For example, if you are completing residency in June 2016, your application is due June 1, 2015. Selections will be made in early September of the year in which your application is received.

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Applications will be made available to interested applicants in January. The application deadline is June 1 prior to the beginning of your last year of training. For example, if you are completing residency in June 2016, your application is due June 1, 2015. For an application or to be added to the distribution list, please email postresidencyprogram@samaritan.org. Please be sure to include your name, contact information, specialty and anticipated date of completion of your training.

A committee of World Medical Mission senior staff members will review applications and interview qualified individuals for approval for the Post-Residency Program. The committee will consider your medical specialty, testimony, references, the leading of the Lord in your life, and your long-term career goals. Second-language skills are helpful but not required.

The committee will present you with two options of mission hospitals and sending organizations that can use your specialty and provide mentorship during these first two years. However, the final decision is up to you.

You will be working as a physician within your specialty caring, serving and teaching in the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ. As with all types of medical missions, flexibility will be essential as you can be sure you will be challenged.

The Post-Residency Program staff will work with you and your family from the time your application is approved through your two years of service. We will assist you with all ministry-related travel and country-specific field requirements. Prior to serving, you will be brought to the Samaritan’s Purse international headquarters in Boone, North Carolina, for orientation. What about my school loans? Post-Resident physicians are not eligible for the Project MedSend grant. However, we are prepared to assist you as you raise support to cover your basic student loan.

Samaritan’s Purse will pay a modest stipend and provide airfare, insurance, immunizations and ministry-related travel expenses to the physician. We will also provide housing and a food allowance for you and your family. The support you will need to raise will be to cover your family’s airfare, benefits and ministry-related expenses. The ministry will not take any administrative fees from the funds you raise.

From the outset of the program the Post-Residency staff will assist you in finding a mission sending agency that is the right fit for you and your family. By starting at the beginning, we can help you seamlessly transition to the long-term sending agency and minimize your time spent at home raising support and completing the necessary sending organization requirements between assignments.

If you have additional questions, please contact us using the form at the bottom of our Serving Overseas page. You can also request an application using this form. Please include complete contact information as well as your expected residency or fellowship completion date.

The medical arm of Samaritan's Purse places volunteer Christian physicians, dentists, and other medical personnel in mission hospitals and clinics around the world. We also staff a biomedical department and warehouse that provides critically needed medical equipment and supplies to medical mission facilities.

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Post Residency Program

The World Medical Mission Post-Residency Program is a fully funded two-year program for Christian physicians and their families who have been called to medical missions. Following their residency, doctors are placed at a mission hospital to serve within their specialty alongside career medical missionaries. We provide logistical and financial support to these young men and women as they treat patients and share the love of Jesus Christ.

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"Ninelle, the young woman that we helped send across the continent of Africa to have open-heart surgery, has had her surgery in Kenya at Tenwek Hospital. We praise God for the chance to take care of this young lady. Together we were able to truly show the love of Christ to her and her family.

To my knowledge, never before has anyone in the Republic of Congo had this surgery, let alone a single mother from a family with little means in one of the poorest regions of Congo. Thank you for your help in making this a possibility! Below is a report from the nurse right after the surgery." - Dr. Elliott Tenpennybit.ly/1JVxwew... See MoreSee Less